Cesar Chavez, Immigration Hard-Liner

, Malcolm A. Kline, Leave a comment

But maybe not in the way you might have thought. “March 31 is the birthday of late civil rights icon Cesar Chavez,” the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) reminds us and goes on to argue that “Chavez, founder of the United Farm Workers union, was a fierce opponent of illegal immigration and supporter of tight border controls.”

“Chavez’s core insight was based on the law of supply and demand: Flooding the labor market with people from abroad undermines American workers trying to improve their lot in life.” Wonder how many schools will change their names…